Jonathan Grudin

I work in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research, part of the Microsoft Corporation. My research is in human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work, with a particular focus on the design, adoption and use of group support technologies. Some of the work below was done in the Collaborative and Multimedia Systems Group.

Prior to joining Microsoft Research, I was Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine. I have taught at Aarhus University, Keio University, and the University of Oslo, and worked at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Wang Laboratories, and MCC since earning my Ph.D. at UC San Diego. (Life before Microsoft)

My wife Gayna Williams is a Usability Manager at Microsoft. Our daughters Eleanor and Isobel are not yet considering career options.

Projects

Supporting Interaction In Organizations: I am interested in challenges in designing and using technology to support people in group and organizational settings. These are quite different: we have interacted in groups for millions of years and the challenge is to support natural capabilities that are unlikely to be changed. Organizations have only existed for thousands of years and are very much subject to modification. In both cases, technology design, adoption and use require attention to context, including features that promote awareness of the relevant people, objects, and events, and through social conventions that elicit such information. As awareness technologies produce more efficient and effective interaction, they bring to the fore issues of privacy, trust, reciprocity, and accountability. Another challenge is the need to support work at a more detailed, individual level while at the same time enabling people to interact intelligibly. Among the papers below, some current interests appear in those on information displays, emerging conventions in technology use, effects of digital representation, and challenges in building widely useful platforms.

Collaborative Information Retrieval: Most examination of information retrieval is from the perspective of individuals. In this NSF-sponsored project investigators at Microsoft, Boeing, RISO, and the University of Washington are considering the way that workgroups or teams determine needs and retrieve and disseminate information.

CHI Academy and ACM TOCHI

In 2004 I was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy. From 1997 through 2003 I was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Recent Publications and Papers
Editorial Boards
Recent Professional Activities
    Conference Committees
  • CSCW 2004: Conference Committee, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • ICIS 2004: Associate Program Chair, International Conference on Information Systems
  • CogSci 2004: Paper Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • GI 2004: Paper Reviewer, Graphics Interface Conference
  • CHI 2004: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
  • CogSci 2003: Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • ECSCW 2003: Program Committee, European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • INTERACT 2003: Program Committee, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • UbiComp 2003: Paper Reviewer, Ubiquitous Computing Conference
  • UIST 2003: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on User Interface Software Technology
  • Wbc 2003: Program Committee, First International Workshop on Web-based Collaboratories
  • CSCW 2002: Conference & Program Committees, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • COOP 2002: Program Committee, Conference on Design of Cooperative Systems
  • WWW/Internet 2002: Program Committee, International Conference on WWW and Internet
  • NordiCHI 2002: Program Committee, Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Hypertext 2002: Review Committee, Hypertext 2002
  • UIST 2002: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on User Interface Software Technology
  • CHI 2002: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
  • ECSCW 2001: Program Committee, European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Hypertext 2001: Review Committee, Hypertext 2001
  • INTERACT 2001: Conference Committee, IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • UIST 2001: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on User Interface Software Technology
  • SAINT 2001: Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet
  • CUU 2000: Associate Program Chair, ACM Conference on Universal Usability
  • DIAC 2000: Program Committee, CPSR Conference on Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing
  • COOP 2000: Program Committee, Conference on Design of Cooperative Systems
  • CSCW 2000: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • UIST 2000: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on User Interface Software Technology
  • Hypertext 2000: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
  • GI 2000: Paper Reviewer, Graphics Interface Conference
  • CHI 2000: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
  • SIGGRAPH 99: Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
  • WWW8: Program Committee, 1999 Word Wide Web Conference
  • CoBuild 99: Program Committee, International Workshop on 'Cooperative Buildings'
  • SCCCP 99: Program Committee, Chilean Computer Science Society Conference
  • ICPP 99: Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel Processing
  • WACC 99: Program Committee, ACM Conference on Work Activities, Coordination and Collaboration
  • ECSCW 99: Program Committee, European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • CSCW 98: Co-chair, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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